Samsung Omnia II

If you're going to watch a video about the Samsung Omnia II (i8000) then you may as well watch a long one, and thankfully Hdblog.it have just the thing. Their 10 minute video review - which you can see after the cut - puts the 3.7-inch WVGA 800 x 480 touchscreen smartphone through its paces, and you can see that Samsung have done a pretty decent job covering up Windows Mobile.

According to an unnamed phoneArena tipster, Verizon have confirmed that they will be offering the CDMA version of Samsung's Omnia II this July. The source is seemingly Verizon's customer services, who revealed that the touchscreen AMOLED Windows Mobile phone will be dropping just next month.

Further details regarding the Samsung GT-I8000 have emerged, and it seems that you're looking at the Samsung Omnia II (or Omnia2; the nomenclature isn't decided yet). Packing a 3.7-inch WVGA 800 x 480 touchscreen - that's tipped to use an AMOLED panel - the Omnia II has an 8.1-megapixel camera with dual LED flash and VGA video recording at 30fps.

Connectivity is tipped to include 3G UMTS, WiFi, Bluetooth and miniUSB, while there's also GPS and a microSD card slot. The UI is prompting discussion: some are saying that it's unchanged over previous iterations of Samsung's Windows Mobile TouchWiz overlay, while a video demo said to be of the Omnia II shows a new, cubic arrangement.